Mark Cuban has been one of the most outspoken owners on the Donald Sterling situation. (Eric Gay, The Associated Press)

Since the Donald Sterling scandal broke last month, Mark Cuban has been, perhaps, the most outspoken NBA owner on the issue, raising questions as to whether the NBA should oust an owner for private comments recorded illegally in his own home, even if the comments and actions are deplorable.

On Wednesday, the Mavericks owner and tech mogul continued to speak out on the topic in an interview at the GrowCo conference in Nashville, even admitting his own bigotry.

“We’re all prejudiced in one way or the other,” Cuban said in a clip from Wednesday’s conference. “If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it’s late at night, I’m walking to the other side of the street. And if on that other side of the street, there’s a guy that has tattoos all over his face — white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere — I’m walking back to the other side of the street. And the list goes on of stereotypes that we live up to and are fearful of.”

“I know that I’m not perfect,” he added. “I know that I live in a glass house and that it’s not appropriate for me to throw stones. And so when I run into bigotry in organizations I control, I try to find solutions. I’ll work with people, I’ll send them to training, I’ll send them to sensitivity training, I’ll try to give them a chance to improve themselves, because I think helping people improve their lives, helping people engage with people they may fear or may not understand, and helping people realize that while we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it’s an issue that we have to control, that it’s part of my responsibility as a entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road. Because it does my company no good, it does my customers no good, it does society no good if my response to somebody and their racism or bigotry is: ‘It’s not right for you to be here. Go take your attitude somewhere else.'”

In some of the highlights from his full speech, as excerpted by The Tennessean, Cuban spoke on how he’ll vote when the 28 other NBA owners meet on the Sterling issue: “You’ll find out. I know how I’m going to vote, but I’m not ready to comment on it.”

On how to keep bigotry out of the NBA: “You don’t. There’s no law against stupid.”

And on stupidity in general: “I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet — I want to know who the morons are.”

As his remarks have gained traction, so too have his outraged responses to reporters and commenters on Twitter who, he claims, have take his words out of context.

“But at the same time, that’s a decision I make. I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.”

Silver announced earlier this week that Sterling has until May 27 to respond to the league’s charge that he damaged the league with his comments and that he has the right to appear at the June 3 hearing to make a presentation to the NBA’s Board of Governors. No response from Sterling by May 27 will be grounds for termination. The owners will vote on whether to remove him as the Clippers’ owner after the hearing in New York.

[8] Cuban said before Game 4 of the first-round series between his Mavericks and the Spurs: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10854381/mark-cuban-dallas-mavericks-rails-donald-sterling-not-favor-kicking-owner